“It's a huge, huge opportunity for us,” he said. The GOP hopeful criticized the Obama administration for failing to take advantage of the opportunity to reduce the poverty rate in America. Instead, he said, the administration is preventing ...

New US Reality: A Permanent Class of Underemployed?: The most recent Census figures estimated that 46 million Americans now live in poverty—the highest level since 1993. Equally alarming is the poverty rate for children in America, which increased to 22 percent in 2010. While the root causes of this ...

Energy poverty 'has millions in darkness': The goals would be taken to a global UN conference on sustainable development in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, this June. "We are hoping these three targets and objectives can become universally accepted," Dr Yumkella said. "We need to get these as universal ...

Crime booms as Central Americans fear police switched sides: According to the Office of the Human Rights Prosecutor in Guatemala City, the assaults left 216 people dead in 2008, 318 dead in 2009, 298 dead in 2010 and 228 in 2011 through September. The crime wave is taking an enormous economic toll in Central...

As election heats up, US renews calls for UN reform: Annual Human Rights Council elections, like elections for most UN bodies, feature little competition. Regional groupings for Asia, Africa, Latin America, Eastern and Western Europe agree on candidates before the vote so that nearly all candidates are ...

Economic considerations at heart of Carmona's decision: Juxtaposing that speed of depreciation with the soul crushing poverty of places like Carmona's native Dominican Republic, which has a per capita income of $8900, suddenly the matter of fudging one's age isn't a question of virtue, but in many cases, ...

Puerto Rico: Economic Reality · Global Voices: Puerto Rico (U.S.). In response to an editorial suggesting that the citizenry “may have been complicit in the senseless murder of Karla Negrón, the latest victim of a stray bullet on New Year's Eve”, Dondequiera says: “It is pure hypocrisy for ...

A flight from Cuba landed in Ottawa with 11 ill passengers.A flight from Cuba landed in Ottawa with 11 ill passengers. (CBC) Flights from Holguin, Cuba, arriving in Ottawa and Toronto have been flagged by Canadian public health officials after people ...

Cuban dissident freed after death of fellow activist: By the CNN Wire Staff Cuban opposition activist Guillermo Farinas, seen in a file photo from 2010, has staged several hunger strikes. (CNN) -- Cuban authorities released dissident hunger striker Guillermo Farinas from prison Friday, a day after another ...

Ultimately “Miss Bala,” like other recent Mexican films depicting the drug war,
does not offer viewers much in the way of hope. Justice, for Laura, is
not served. As smoke billows from the skyline early in her ordeal and
gunfire crackles faintly, ...

CARACAS, Venezuela — With inmates
wielding machine guns, rifles and grenades and guards often unwilling to
enter the overcrowded buildings for fear of their own death, jails in Venezuela have become a lawless territory ...

South America rises as top tourism destination: By spending their cash locally, those travellers are helping to fuel economic development, often in remote poverty-stricken parts of the continent. Nevertheless, Latin America's tourism industry continues to wrestle with key issues, including a lack of ...

Native plant debate grows invasive: We all blew in from somewhere, whether we're Native American and our ancestors crossed the land bridge from Asia that's now the Aleutians or our forefathers were Californios back in the Bear Republic or we hit the Southland last week in the classic ...

Today Brandley works with Witness To Innocence, an organization made up solely of people who have been exonerated off death row. (In the US, 130 people have been exonerated.) Brandley is fighting to abolish the death penalty in Texas. ...

Though the European Union is staunchly against the death penalty, it's been in the business of selling death penalty technology to the US for the past two years. But that all changed a few weeks ago, when the EU signed legislation making it illegal to ...

Argentine Jewish leader criticizes anti-Semitic cartoon: BUENOS AIRES (JTA) -- The head of Argentina's Jewish community criticized as anti-Semitic a cartoon that appeared in a national newspaper. Guillermo Borger, president of AMIA, Argentina's main Jewish community organization, called the cartoon, ...

Rodrigo Hinzpeter, Chile's Interior Minister, has been under fire for proposing to install strict regulations on Chilean media. Photo: La Presidencia de Chile SANTIAGO — Chile is currently revoking orders that would have empowered police to seize ...